Green Go Home: Rirkrit Tiravanija, Tomas Vu, Tianzhuo Chen, Rafael Domenech, He Tianqi, Xindi Li, Liu Yushan and Tong Kunniao

Hua International Beijing is pleased to present the Beijing edition of Green Go Home, a collaborative project initiated by the internationally acclaimed artists Rirkrit Tiravanija and Tomas Vu. Together with the artists, Hua International invites local artists from China to participate in the event, creating a form of dynamic dialogue with artists’ reconsideration of “relationship” throughout the creation. The exhibition will open on Nov. 27th, 2021. from 16pm to 18pm. Artists will activate The Green Go Home (The Sculpture) in the gallery space and perform with printed t-shirts for purchase. Artist Tong Kunniao will also give performance at the opening ceremony at irregular intervals.

Green Go Home, a collaborative project by Tomas Vu and Rirkrit Tiravanija, is a flexible and engaging installation that activates audience’s behavior.

Green Go Home is constantly changing its medium, presenting itself in different ways each time it occupies a new space-time landscape. As a form of dynamic dialogue with the current wave of protest and unrest, Green Go Home is a contextualized collaborative project that combines realistic imagery with evocative text. These images include revolutionaries, pop culture icons, or well-known artists. The network of images created by Tomas Vu and Rirkrit Tiravanija’s slogan creates a multifaceted relationship that weaves layers of interpretation and misunderstanding.

The forthcoming presentation of Green Go Home at Hua International illustrates the project’s continuing focus on engagement and radicalism at its core, as well as its stylistic design based on portrait printmaking. The presentation features well-known works by Tomas Vu and Rirkrit Tiravanija, while combining creations by local artists in China, which also points directly towards the current circumstance under the pandemic- constant quarantine, isolation, a halt in worldwide communication. Meanwhile, the new project showcases artists’ reconsideration of “relationship”, as seen in the growing trend where being online and virtual could be an alternative to the physical world.

In the exhibition, Li Xindi’s new sculpture work, with a focus on institutional critique, provides the heat sources of “bonfire” and communication between the viewers and the gallery space; the performance manuscripts by Tianzhuo Chen are a rehearsal of the forthcoming play, which connects the virtual and the reality; Rafael Domenech’s site-specific screen acts not only as a divide of space, but a connection of relationship; Liu Yushan’s new work is immersed in intercultural communication, which also represents a current stage of her long-term project; He Tianqi’s vibrant-color painting is another response to the black-and-white prints in the space. At the exhibition opening, artist Tong Kunniao presents his new work Cheers for Smell, a seemingly welcoming gesture that complicates relationship.

It is also notable that the presentation of Green Go Home in Beijing is not limited to the exhibition opening. As a constantly-changing conversational platform, the project brings in new works by both international and domestic artists during the exhibition period, enriching the existing works in the space. Additionally, artists will engage with the public in the physical space in the means of T-shirt printmaking and other conversations, which aim to break the order and establish new relations.

Though separated from each other for various reasons, these artworks, bearing the meanings of complex relationships, showing consensus and difference at the same time, gather at Hua International in this exhibition, in the wintertime of Beijing.